307 S-^. C. -evillel, ^.^l.Br. (Fig. 159). Growths of nev;ly- 



introduced plants 4-5 lines long and 4-6 lines in dianeter, some- 

 times ■becoming under cultivation up to one inch long, end as rauch 

 in their greater dianieter, broadly obconic, usuallj'' flat the cir- 

 cuIt or hroadly elliptic top, hut different plants varying 

 (types y and K",) sometimes being slightly obcordate, or-v/ith the 

 centre depressed in a slight cup-like manner, more or less purple 

 on the sides, but the top varying much in different individuals, 

 being light green, dull f?reen, grey-green, or rather bright ros3^- 

 cermine marked with dark green or dark purrle dots, which are 

 m.ore or less connected or confluent into simple or branching 

 lines, or occasionally all, or nearly all, separate, and are often 

 fsnntly raised, var^^*n(?. on different plants in arrangement and 

 size. GeT^rx-tube more or less exserted, 5-lobed, ovary included 

 or exserted. Corolla finally 4-7 lines in diameter, opening after 

 sunset, sligjitly scented; tube about as long as the calyx; petals 

 30-40, in 2-3 series, recurved-sr>reading, white or crearay-vAite, . 

 Stamens with slishtly exserted pale yellov; anthers. Style very 

 sho'^t or nearly obso^lete; stigmas 4, less than 1 line long, fili- 

 form, white. — K. ^^evillei, ^. E, B,r in «^ourn. Linn. "^oc. ^ot., 

 Vol. 45, p. 95. I", obcordellum, Sii^s, -^ot. ^^g. , t. 1647, not of 

 Haw . 



Van P'hynsdorp j^iv., near Van ""'hyndorp, i^illans. 

 This is a verx?- variable species in shape, colour and size, 

 and I find that the plant figured in the botanical wl^gazine as 

 I-. obcordellum is undoubtedly'- this species, for I have had some 

 grov/ths of my plants as large as or larger than that figure, and 

 in every way like it. I have one plant of this species which in 

 summer becomes entirely'' of a rosy-carmine tint, and is than a 

 very r^retty and distinct-looking plant. 



28. C. obcordellum, N. S. Br. Growths usually about 4-5 

 lines long, 4-6 "' ines broad end 3-|-5 lines thick, but sometimes 

 much larger, obcordately obconic, from a transverse notch across 

 the tOT^ (tj'-T^e L) , ereen or more or less glaucous-green, usually'' 

 tinted vrith T^ur^le """^hen ex^^osed to full suns^.ine, marked on the 

 tor) with raise''^ or tubercle-like dots, mostly confluent into 

 irregular lines, of a dark rurT-lis: or dark green colour, accor- 

 ding to sunshine. GalTrx 4-5-lobed. Gorolla 5-10 lines in diam- 

 eter, sometimes both sizes on the same plant at the same time, 

 ex'^anding bet'veen 4 and 5 p.m., closed during the day, faintly or 

 scarcely scented; tube 2-2-^- lines long; petals 25-40, recurved- 

 srread npr, lax milk-white to very pale straw-colour, sometimes 

 tinged v,,dth pink at the tips. The stamens slightly exserted, 

 anthers r>ale yellow. Style § line long, rhitish or greenish. 

 1'. obcordellum, HrT,-. :.!isc. Net. p. 21 (l803) ; ^alm ^yck, i-^esemb. 

 1, f. 2. n. obconellum, Hpv;. I--isc. ^^'at., p. 21 (1803); 3alm 

 ^:"-ck, i^-esemb. 1, f. 3, 



■'orchester "^iv., near ■'orcester, Gooper, Gignwilliam Div., 

 near Gipnv.dlliam, Lilians. 



There is no character whatever to distine;uish the two plants 

 known in gardens and figured by 3alni 3yck as ^■^-. obcordellum and 

 1'. obconellum, the distinction given by 3alm Dyck and by Berger 

 bein^ prirely fictitious. As ^^av/orth's original descriptions are 

 inaccessible to the majority, I here give a transit tion of them. 

 "V. obcordellum. T\joce as large as the preceding (i.e., i'^. 

 minutum) and more obcordate, glaucescent, v/ith the spots more ele- 

 vated or sub-tubercular, and more confluent £:nd branched or map- 



